Cezanne Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it…
— Bob Dylan
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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea…
— Willem de Kooning
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Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.
— Arthur Koestler
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In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
— Bob Dylan
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.
— Jane Hirshfield
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What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity…
— Ian Hornak
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
— Henri Matisse
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If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,…
— Robert Motherwell
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Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
— Clive Bell
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Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature…
— Mary Cassatt
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Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
— Walter Sickert
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The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by…
— Clement Greenberg
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The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work…
— Philip Guston
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There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.
— Kimon Nicolaides
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The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.
— Michael Scott
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If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
— Arshile Gorky
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Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.
— Wolf Kahn
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Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have…
— Alice Neel
Who Wrote These Cezanne Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Cezanne Quotes as follows: